Version: 3.5.1 (using KDE 3.5.9) Installed from: Compiled From Sources Compiler: gcc 4.3.0 OS: Linux Issue: When I try to compile a simple C or C++ project using autotools, everything works fine until KDevelop starts the linking process using libtool. Linking never ends and libtool make my system unresponsive because it occupies all the resources (an infinite loop I suppose). This bug has been already discussed here http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=142727, but in the end someone deduced that it's probably a autotools problem. Well, after discussing the issue in the ArchLinux board (http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/10173) and in the Autotools board(http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-libtool/2008-05/msg00063.html), the autotools devs said it's a KDevelop problem!(http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-libtool/2008-05/msg00086.html) The issue seems to be provoked by an obsolete configure script ($KDEDIR/share/apps/kapptemplate/admin/ltmain.sh). Any patch? I tried to replace the original ltmain.sh from the KDE dir with the one in the libtool folder, but whenever I start a new project the old ltmain.sh is still used :\. (Yeah it seems pretty impossible but that's it)
Did you really compiled KDevelop from sources ? If yes, why didn't you use KDevelop 3.5.2 ? If not, where did you get the packages ? The packages provided at kdevelop.org should not suffer from that problem (I hope). The autotools stuff that KDevelop uses comes from KDE, so this might be a KDE issue. On incorrectly packaged KDevelop it might be a packager problem. SuSE for instance messes this up.
Its not a kdevelop issue, if anything its an issue with KDE's admin/ directory and you should've re-opened the old bugreport. I'm closing this one as duplicate, will re-open the old issue and re-assign to the buildsystem component. But don't expect a fix, nobody is really working on KDE3 anymore, especially not on the completely broken buildsystem. Still IMHO the issue is with litool, it shouldn't break so horribly on older scripts. Also 2.2.x seems pretty new, maybe the need to iron out some bugs still :) Besides that: You replaced the wrong ltmain.sh, KDevelop keeps its templates in tar.gz's in share/apps/kdevappwizard/ *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 142727 ***
There have been commits (post 3.5.2) to KDevelop in SVN that might fix this issue. Please update and retest.